A DRIFT CHAMBER TRACK FINDER FOR THE 1ST LEVEL TRIGGER OF THE H1 EXPERIMENT

被引:15
作者
WOLFF, T [1 ]
RIEDLBERGER, J [1 ]
ARPAGAUS, M [1 ]
BERNET, R [1 ]
EICHLER, R [1 ]
GRAB, C [1 ]
BECK, HP [1 ]
EGLI, S [1 ]
EICHENBERGER, S [1 ]
MULLER, K [1 ]
MEYER, C [1 ]
ROBMANN, P [1 ]
STRAUMANN, U [1 ]
TRUOL, P [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV ZURICH,INST PHYS,CH-8001 ZURICH,SWITZERLAND
关键词
D O I
10.1016/0168-9002(92)90345-5
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
The information from the central drift chamber of the H1 experiment is used in a first level trigger to find and count charged tracks, originating from genuine ep collisions at the HERA storage ring. Background processes, predominantly from beam-wall and beam-gas interactions, are discriminated because their distance of closest approach to the collision vertex differs from good events. The track finder is designed in a pipelined fashion, producing decisions at the bunch crossing frequency of f(b) = 10.4 MHz, however delayed by a fixed decision time of 2.3 mus. This operation is deadtime free but still uniquely related to the specific bunch crossing 24 cycles earlier. The hardware implementation relies on XILINX logic cell arrays which are programmable providing a high flexibility.
引用
收藏
页码:537 / 541
页数:5
相关论文
共 3 条
[1]   THE CENTRAL JET CHAMBER OF THE H-1 EXPERIMENT [J].
BURGER, J ;
CRIEGEE, L ;
FRANKE, G ;
KLAR, H ;
MEYER, J ;
SCHUG, J ;
SCHULZ, M ;
STEFFEN, P ;
WALOSCHEK, P ;
WINTER, GG ;
ZIMMERMANN, W ;
GAETHKE, U ;
SCHENUIT, E ;
SPITZER, H .
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, 1989, 279 (1-2) :217-222
[2]   A FAST PIPELINED TRIGGER FOR THE H1 EXPERIMENT BASED ON MULTIWIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBER SIGNALS [J].
EICHENBERGER, S ;
BECK, HP ;
EGLI, S ;
MULLER, K ;
MEYER, CA ;
ROBMANN, P ;
STRAUMANN, U ;
TRUOL, P ;
ARPAGAUS, M ;
BERNET, R ;
EICHLER, R ;
GRAB, C ;
RIEDLBERGER, J ;
WOLFF, T .
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, 1992, 323 (1-2) :532-536
[3]  
1986, DESY PRC8602 TECH PR